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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 19, 2019 16:12:20 GMT -5
I like her, I think the Naomi feud was part of what got me to notice her more. Probably helps that we don't have like a ton of the women doing the same shtick like we used to.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 19, 2019 16:13:53 GMT -5
Truly gods greatest gift, i think that she’s better than anyone really expected and should continue to improve. The sad thing about Sonya is that she’ll probably get lost in the sea of MMA chicks despite being as good or better. Yeah, I hope the Mandy partnership will help her stand out more, plus Ronda seemingly leaving.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 16:13:58 GMT -5
Truly gods greatest gift, i think that she’s better than anyone really expected and should continue to improve. The sad thing about Sonya is that she’ll probably get lost in the sea of MMA chicks despite being as good or better. I really like Sonya too, but my feeling is she needs to change up her look. Maybe make her Elimination Chamber attire her permanent attire.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Feb 19, 2019 16:35:40 GMT -5
She's someone who has slowly become one of my favorites over the last year. One thing I really like about her, and Sonya, is that they comes off as believable and both look like they can hurt you which isn't exactly a case with a lot of the other heels on both shows. As another poster mentioned she's actually pretty muscular and very powerfully built however they don't really put much emphasis on that due to her looks. Despite being a beauty queen she comes off as someone who probably would be pretty hard to handle in a real fight.
I think in ring she has also improved a lot and you can tell that management clearly seems to think so too as they seem to seem to have a lot more faith in her in what how much she's booked to do in matches. Look at how she did in both Royal Rumbles and Elimination Chambers this and compare that to what she did last year. Last year she was eliminated first in both while this year she got over 25 minutes in the Rumble and along with Sonya stayed in the Chamber from start to finish while looking good and holding her own in both. I like that they are taking their time with her and giving her more of a slow burn push instead of giving her the rocket push like other good looking blonde women they like (Charlotte, Alexa, and if the reports are true Lacey Evans). I know the talent doesn't have control over their booking but I always respect and root more for talents who paid their dues and had to take a longer road to the top as apposed to the ones who were always taken care from the start and shot up to the top of the card immediately.
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Post by Old Jack Burton on Feb 19, 2019 16:39:53 GMT -5
The majority of women wrestlers have done a little modeling here and there. It's show business. It's natural that they would have. Some women who are respected for their high work rate also have a massive backlog of bikini and pin-up photoshoots, such as Mickie James or Asuka.
To go even further: it is a rare exception to find a successful woman wrestler who is not playing a monster heel who does not have at least several sexy photoshoots out there of herself.
The whole "former model" criticism has never made sense to me.
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Post by Hypnosis on Feb 19, 2019 16:43:21 GMT -5
Truly gods greatest gift, i think that she’s better than anyone really expected and should continue to improve. The sad thing about Sonya is that she’ll probably get lost in the sea of MMA chicks despite being as good or better. I really like Sonya too, but my feeling is she needs to change up her look. Maybe make her Elimination Chamber attire her permanent attire. I like this idea better:
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 19, 2019 17:11:17 GMT -5
She's better than I thought she'd be, that's for sure. She and Sonya also work well together, though I think Sonya can have a pretty bright future as a face should the team ever split up.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Feb 19, 2019 19:57:13 GMT -5
I really like Sonya too, but my feeling is she needs to change up her look. Maybe make her Elimination Chamber attire her permanent attire. I like this idea better: Sonya DeRaven. And yep, she would also be a better flock leader than Bray Wyatt.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Feb 19, 2019 20:03:23 GMT -5
I really like Sonya too, but my feeling is she needs to change up her look. Maybe make her Elimination Chamber attire her permanent attire. I like this idea better: Said it before, will say it again. Why isn't Grunge Enthusiast Sonya Deville a thing on my TV? She rocks that look so well. Also, in regards to the "doesn't wrestle like a model" point in the OP, I imagine you don't get to wrestle "like a model" much when you have Sara Del Rey as your trainer.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Feb 19, 2019 20:25:58 GMT -5
I like this idea better: Said it before, will say it again. Why isn't Grunge Enthusiast Sonya Deville a thing on my TV? She rocks that look so well. Also, in regards to the "doesn't wrestle like a model" point in the OP, I imagine you don't get to wrestle "like a model" much when you have Sara Del Rey as your trainer. That's actually one of the main inciting reasons for the womens' revolution and how the Horsewomen came to be. Sasha said that when she was signed, she was told to "wrestle like a diva", but she was also around just as Del Rey came to the performance center, and she was having none of that shit. She trained the women properly and the rest is history, to the point where now Del Rey is assistant head coach of the whole show and ther is no specific womens' trainer anymore. Mandy ROse is what happens when a model makes her way through the modern developmental system. Nobody is trained to "wrestle like a model" anymore, I'd argue the last one to do so was Eva Marie and that was largely down to her being refused chances to go train at the performance center.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 21:31:25 GMT -5
Make Mandy and Sonya the female Demolition. DO IT YOU COWARDS!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 0:17:37 GMT -5
Make Mandy and Sonya the female Demolition. DO IT YOU COWARDS! Now I’m picturing Mandy and Sonya with beer guts wearing facepaint.Seeing its the PG era they’ll probably have to skip the S&M gear.
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Post by schma on Feb 20, 2019 0:36:09 GMT -5
Both her and Sonya have come a long way. So have Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan. Watching that Elimination chamber match was fantastic because everyone did a great job. Tiny slip ups here and there but it looked good.
Specifically with Mandy, I'm glad that she is able to talk at full speed now (it wasn't too long ago that every word was spaced. out. like. it's. own. sentence.). The women's division in general now almost entirely consists of good or better workers and it's nice to see people like Mandy and Sonya who once upon a time seemed destined to be career jobbers improved enough that we can now see them as serious contenders. Now if we could mute Corey any time Mandy is on the screen it'd be so much better.
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Post by Hurbster on Feb 20, 2019 2:41:05 GMT -5
It's good to see her improve from week to week. Also, agree 100% about Corey. Got the feeling the other commentators were getting sick of it too.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 20, 2019 3:23:48 GMT -5
Make Mandy and Sonya the female Demolition. DO IT YOU COWARDS! Here comes Deville And here comes the Mandy! They're Femme Demolition Making things dandy!
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Post by SparkyPlugg on Feb 20, 2019 3:42:40 GMT -5
I was actually gutted that they didn’t win the Elimination Chamber after their solid performance. B&H Con could have won them at Mania and saved all their soppy boring BS until then. Fire & Desire could have used the rub from being the first ever Champs.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Feb 20, 2019 4:04:06 GMT -5
I wanna see who's gonna be most improved, Mandy or Liv. On the wrestling side: Mandy On the character side: Liv
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 20, 2019 16:58:08 GMT -5
Make Mandy and Sonya the female Demolition. DO IT YOU COWARDS! Here comes Deville And here comes the Mandy! They're Femme Demolition Making things dandy! Femmelition is sitting right there and you didn't take it?
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 20, 2019 17:00:39 GMT -5
Here comes Deville And here comes the Mandy! They're Femme Demolition Making things dandy! Femmelition is sitting right there and you didn't take it? It was like 3 AM and I have a cold. Forgive me for my ignorant ways.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 20, 2019 17:01:41 GMT -5
Femmelition is sitting right there and you didn't take it? It was like 3 AM and I have a cold. Forgive me for my ignorant ways. I'll give you this one, but we'll be having a conversation if it happens again!
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